Sanglian Historic Site

This is a thousand-year-old mulberry tree in Kaiyuan Temple, but a little hard to find, it is not open, it is surrounded by a circle of railings, so it can not be close to this mulberry tree.

"Sanglian Fajie" is the elegant name of Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple. Entering the mountain gate of Quanzhou Dakaiyuan Temple, unlike other Buddhist temples, the big Xiongbao Temple hangs the big words "Sanglian Border". It comes from the allusion of the Tang Dynasty "Mulberry tree blooming white lotus flower". It is said that there is a squire in Quanzhou, and he met a cloud monk to collect land to build a temple to him. He was reluctant to give up his mulberry field, and he issued a condition: If the mulberry tree opens a lotus, I will agree. Who knows, the next day, his mulberry tree actually opened the lotus, the lotus is white and huge, Qingfen floating with the wind, he immediately decided to build the temple, this temple is Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple.